In 1980, baseball changed when author and baseball historian Bill James coined the term sabermetrics. He defined it as “the search for objective knowledge about baseball.” As statistical analysis has ...

“I was absolutely convinced that this is the most wonderful thing in the world,” he said. Fast-forward to 1983, when sabermetric pioneer Bill James began “Project Scoresheet,” a collective effort by ...

In the 1970s the baseball analyst Bill James pioneered an empirical approach to the sport, developing a panoply of novel ways to quantify performance. Such “sabermetrics” (named for the ...

Bill James, who is considered the godfather of modern baseball analytics, says that analytics are now ruining the game. James is a statistician who founded sabermetrics, which are named after the ...

Bill James, the sabermetrics pioneer who authored the widely influential “Baseball Abstract” books in the 1980s, took to X on Tuesday to discuss the state of sports, focusing on the analytics ...

In addition to releasing his annual projections and maintaining Bill James Online, he works as a Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox and has been referenced in numerous ...

The latest there comes from noted early sabermetrics figure Bill James, but it comes with wider implications. First, though, let’s discuss James, who took a lot of criticism Tuesday and ...

It’s almost impossible to imagine the modern game of baseball without the contributions of Bill James. The longtime Lawrence resident and KU grad is a pioneer in the field of Sabermetrics, a word that ...

Bill James, a baseball writer and statistician, is recognized as the father of sabermetrics – the empirical analysis of baseball. Sabermetrics applies statistical analysis to assess and predict player ...